Recent content by turquoise

I agree with most of the OP, except... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman While I'm not going to claim to have statistical numbers, or that this statement isn't somewhat subjective, a massive portion of 'feminism' is clearly just gender-war power struggle type stuff, and has...

I can think of a good number of sci-fi films from relatively recently that don't qualify. Moon, Primer, Timecrimes, Gattaca (1997, not as recent), off the top of my head, are all dialogue-driven and have little to no special effects (EDIT: I take that back, Timecrimes has very little dialogue...

Same. I was only certain about 16 of them, I think.

I'd recommend Skyrim or MGS4, overall. They're both pretty well rounded with regards to a lot of the things you mentioned (story, length, fun, etc.). I greatly enjoyed the MGS4 story even though I've never played the others, although a lot of it didn't make much sense to me, it's a very cryptic...

Well, I don't mean to hate on Greek Orthodox people; indeed they were the only ones I've met, afaik. Without going into the whole story they basically treated me like I was going to steal something the entire time I was there. When I went to buy some food they were selling they actually wouldn't...

Well, this explains the way I was treated when I went to the community festival that Greek Orthodox church put on.

Favorites for story: - Mass Effect series - Half-Life series - Bioshock series - Braid - Metal Gear Solid 4 Favorites for gameplay: - Super Metroid - Ninja Gaiden (xbox remake) - Killzone 2 - Gears of War 2 - Portal series Most absurdly memorable gameplay: - Super Meat Boy - Dark Void -...

While lying in bed I just realized that, in the Terminator mythology, the reason Skynet immediately declared war on the human race after gaining sentience was because it was built as a military defense(/offense) system. Why should a machine gain consciousness and immediately determine that it...

The mistake is in adding $2 to the $24 * 3 each person paid. The $24 * 3 covers the $70 bill (after discount) + the $2 tip, which is what was paid. They should have then added $3 to the resulting $72, as that is the only part still unaccounted for. The $2 was already accounted for in the $24 *...

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It is an excellent game, I really wasn't expecting to enjoy it this much. I've probably got about 36 hours of play time in it already and have only recently finished opening up the entire map. Expect I've finished around 40% of the major quests, but I'm wasting a lot of time doing the random...

Do you ask them to take the MBTI beforehand as well?

The list changes every year, so better luck next time regarding your favorites. Personally I think it's a sin they didn't include Gattaca on there. It's like the perfect movie. I actually didn't know this, until I was reading it, and started thinking, "WTF. This isn't the list I remember at...

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Yes and no. The + and - values do refer to the spin being in opposite directions, but you can't actually associate any kind of rotation or direction with the spin value. Further explanations: The 'spin' is just a name and isn't really referring to the particle spinning. It's a measure of the...